DLC

American  

abbreviation

1. downloadable content: additional content that can be purchased online and added on to a video game, as to enhance its features.

   If you buy the DLC, you’ll have access to the new weapon packs.

   I had more fun playing the DLC than the game itself.

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Etymology

Origin of DLC

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

The awards do have strict eligibility rules around remakes and remasters of previously released games, and downloadable content, or DLC, which expands on an existing title.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025

This took place alongside a gradual recruitment of DLC figures into the D.C. lobbying apparatus.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2023

The “Left Behind” DLC “gave a moment of fun in a really heavy world,” said Ashley Johnson, who portrays Ellie in “The Last of Us” games.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2023

The company has committed to delivering new content in the future, including paid story DLC that could be comparable in scope to Splatoon 2’s Octo Expansion.

From The Verge • Aug. 24, 2022

DLC 40 Reid, Ira De A. Negro youth, their social and economic backgrounds; a selected bibliography of unpublished studies, 1900-1938.

From The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter by Porter, Dorothy B.